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Not really - the king snake is different and there are a ot of varities 
and they are all very pretty.

http://www.kingsnake.com/king/ssp.html

The common Kingsnake is probably the most common in the SE but several 
other species live in the SE, e.g., the "Milksnake". The common 
Kingsnake or Eastern Kingsnake  gets big up to 7 feet long. The black 
snake normally refers to the black racer sometimes to the black rat 
snake. There is also a black species of Kingsnake but I don't think we 
have many of those in the deep SE - we had them up Western KY and TN. 
The rat sankes are also good to have around.  There is the red and 
yellow ratsnake in the SE. The yellow ratsnake is commonly known as the 
"chickensnake" because they like to eat eggs. But the rat sankes will 
also keep away vipers.

All I know I want to be a long way away when Jody "Calamity Jane" 
Rogers-Buttram sees a snake and gets her gun.

Truman

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

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>
> >  I sure someone will correct me if I am wrong.  But I thought it 
> > was King snakes that killed poisonous ones,
> >    
>
> Yeah, King Snake, Black Snake, I think they're the same. We just call'em
> black snakes around here. You got me on the egg thing though. I *do* know
> a poisonous snake when I see it though. I used to ride horses with 2
> redneck boys who *lived* to catch snakes. They'd knock a copperhead off a
> tree limb over the creek and chase it down the creek with a forked stick
> while I held their horses. One swam right through my horse's front legs
> before they pinned it down,  & caught it (I could see the venom shooting
> out underwater) and then stuffed it in a Maxwell House coffee jar they
> found laying out in a trashheap. My horse didn't mind till he sniffed the
> jar. My 2 "King" snakes are actually a King & a Queen. :-))  I have
> photos to prove it, so we have little prince & princess snakes around the
> place. It's so obvious what kind they are they really don't bother me in
> the least. The other day the cat had one about 18" long playing with it.
> It looked 100% dead but I brought it in and put it in a jar and boy did
> it wake up!  Kaboot's the only horse I've had that hated snakes. He
> REALLY hated it when he'd see on on the trail and would shy from sticks.
> I don't know if it was from seeing the "sticks" around the barn crawl off
> or if he'd ever had a bad experience.
>
> > From Wikepedia:
>
> Kingsnakes are constrictors and tend to be opportunistic when it comes to
> their diet; they will eat other snakes (ophiophagy), lizards, rodents,
> birds, and eggs. They are highly resistant to the venom of other snakes
> and are known to eat rattlesnakes. The "king" in their name (as with the
> king cobra) is a reference to their taste for other snakes and their
> ability to overpower other snakes. 
>
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